BOTANICAL (GAZETIS 
Vor. X. JUNE, 1885. No. 6. 
An Autobiography and Some Reminiscences of the Late August 
Fen 
Tr. . 
EDITED BY WM. M. CANBY. 
Brief notices of the late August Fendler have appeared in 
several scientific periodicals, but scarcely such as so excellent a 
man and one so useful to science deserved. Feeling this, a fuller 
Account, consisting of extracts from his correspondence and some 
personal reminiscences, was prepared by the writer. After this 
ad been done, it was found that, at Prof. Eaton’s suggestion, Mr. 
Fendler had written and sent to him the autobiography which 
has been kindly furnished, and is here given. The former ac- 
count, revised and enriched with further extracts from his letters 
to Professors Gray and Eaton, is appended. 
AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 
F <3 bl Fendler, the only child of Mathias Fendler, was born on the ve 
Pru of January, 1813, at the town of Gumbinnen, in the most eastern part 0 
russia. When he was about six months old his father, who by trade was a 
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iitle August’s parents being possessed of but scanty means, could not do mu; 
in way of education. Hence it hap ned that his school train- 
© Soon found that the kind iti Jone here was to him but a time 
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- ep killing employment, during whith the longing for a visit to foreign 
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itself tthe end of his apprenticeship his first chance for traveling presen 
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to the Pacity of clerk during a journey of inspection to be m 
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